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"Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere." - Emma Smith

Commemorative T-Shirt a Huge Success Because of YOU!

Because of YOUR outstanding support, through the sales of 317 T-Shirts Flint Riverkeeper raised over $4,000 last week to directly fund our mission! Thank you for supporting native fish, local art, and Flint Riverkeeper.

Flint Riverkeeper Needs Volunteers to Adopt-A-Stream!

Flint Riverkeeper is a proud partner of GA EPD's Adopt-A-Stream

(AAS) program. This program relies on citizens like YOU to monitor, improve,

and protect your local waters. FRk has volunteers across the watershed who

check water quality and report their findings. Are you interested in

becoming an AAS volunteer for Flint Riverkeeper? Whether you live near a

pollution hotspot, or in wonderfully clean conditions, we need your help and

your river and creeks need you too. Email RJ Gipaya, FRk's Watershed

Specialist, for information Robert@flintriverkeeper.org

The Importance of Efficient Irrigation

In April when the sweet corn goes in, during the depths of summer when the cotton is growing out, and even in the winter to insure good cover crops high efficiency irrigation is the most important risk-management and production tool that farmers in the Flint River basin have. The agriculture industry of southwest Georgia relies heavily on the Floridan aquifer for

irrigation.

Due to the porous limestone (karst) known as the Ocala Formation, home to the Floridan Aquifer, and the DIRECT connection of the aquifer to the river and the creeks of the lower Flint, heavy withdrawals directly affect water levels in the river. These facts amplify the reasons for efficient irrigation along with farmers managing their risks and improving their bottom lines.

Flint Riverkeeper is a proud partner of the agricultural community, working with farmers and researchers (at UGA's Stripling Park, at

the Jones Center in Baker County, at University System research facilities in Tifton, and elsewhere) to advance and implement high

efficiency solutions that reduce water waste, increase bottom lines, and improve water levels in the river and tributaries.

FRk and the Georgia Association of Women Fly Fishers

This week Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers gave a 'zoom-style' briefing to the Georgia Association of Women Fly Fishers on our beloved shoal bass, flow issues in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) ecosystem, and the work that Flint Riverkeeper does to promote and improve the fishery and overall water supply situation.

Partnerships with American Rivers, Auburn University, GA DNR, the GA Wildlife Federation, the fish-guiding community, elected officials, Altamaha, Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper(s), ACF Stakeholders Inc., plus Flint River

farmers and utility managers were highlighted. And, a group of six of the

GAWFF members were escorted by Gordon on a wade-fishing trip later in the

week. As many of you know, Flint Riverkeeper inherited the mantle of

advocacy for the shoalie from the Shoal Bass Alliance over eight years ago,

working diligently for conservation of the species and for the creeks and

rivers that support it.